Author: Amanda Collins
The best-selling games of 2025 in Europe so far have been revealed and number one is a bit of a surprise. The Game Business has shared a run down of the games that have sold the most units so far this year in Europe. The information comes via GSD, the official European charts company that tracks sales of PC and console games across the continent and includes both digital and physical copies. According to their data, the best selling game in Europe this year is EA Sports FC 25 which originally launched in September 2024. However it seems that people…
Chicago-based recording artist, songwriter, and musician Kenny Hass shares his brand new single I Got It Bad for You, a lighthearted indie-pop/yatch rock love song. Out now via Music Room Studios, I’ve Got It Bad for You is taken from Kenny’s upcoming debut album, How Far We’ve Come, and finds the talented artist sharing a message of finding yourself in love all over again. I am really enjoying the tone of his voice and how expressive and passionate his delivery is, soaring effortlessly over the upbeat production. Apart from his vocals I am particularly fond of the lively piano keys and how they…
Coldplay have kicked off their long-awaited UK 2025 tour dates, and used the opening night in Hull to address their recent kiss-cam controversy. Chris Martin and co. played the first of their two huge stadium shows in Hull last night (August 18) – kicking things off at Craven Park, before another stop there tonight (19). The dates come as part of the band’s extensive ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour, which began in 2022. While on stage, Coldplay treated fans to a stacked 23-song setlist, including classics from the past 25-years. Split into four acts and across three stages, the…
Spotify has launched its new Mix With Spotify feature, allowing users to seamlessly blend songs within a playlist like a professional DJ. Offering controls like echo, volume automation, EQ, and low and high pass filters, the new feature launches in beta on Tuesday (Aug. 19) to Spotify Premium users on the app. Related News of Spotify’s new feature comes amid a growing interest in customizable, DJ-like music products. In March 2025, competitor Apple Music launched its DJ With Apple Music feature, allowing users to integrate songs from the streaming service into platforms like AlphaTheta, Serato, and inMusic’s Engine DJ, Denon…
Lady Gaga has brought her celebrated ‘MAYHEM Ball’ tour to Roblox’s hit Dress To Impress game Lady Gaga’s ‘MAYHEM Ball’ tour kicked off last month in support of sixth studio album ‘Mayhem’. She’s set to continue touring North America until September when she’ll bring the theatrical show to Europe before wrapping things up with an Australian run in December. However Lady Gaga has now confirmed her ‘Mayhem Ball’ will be coming to Roblox’s Dress To Impress, a game that challenges players to pull together themed looks before parading them down the runway. “The Mistress of Mayhem has decided to take…
Press release – FERMENTOR’s latest sonic experiment, Agreement, dropped August 15th, 2025. This 17-track instrumental album concludes a trilogy of improvised releases, following Mind Meld and Release Me. Agreement pushes their boundary-defying blend of blistering death metal and sprawling, freeform post-rock to new extremes, delivering cinematic brutality and storytelling without words through instinct-driven chemistry. The album opens with “Wintry Earth,” a bleak, droning descent marked by jagged time signatures, eerie guitar textures, and a brutal death metal finale that sets a tense, violent tone. “Whisper Flesh” follows, a raw improvisation where dissonant loops and jagged grooves shift between blast-heavy death metal and crushing, groove-laden…
Consumingly rhythmic soundscapes shine across Gentle Worship, a standout album created by percussion trio Perc Ens, in collaboration with composer and artist Nathan Hall. Spanning both sparse percussive minimalism and rumbling momentum, Gentle Worship was conceptualized from a collection of baguette-shaped lithophones discovered in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. Perc Ens also created the release in collaboration with the leading archeologist studying lithophones found in Colorado. A sense of timeless introspection lingers aptly throughout the album’s sound, as a result — both in its archaeological inspiration, and within an aesthetic that champions spacious atmospherics and hypnotic rhythms, which are…
Keith Urban is leading the search for the next Australian country music superstar. The Australia-raised country great has partnered with the Tamworth Country Music Festival for the Keith Urban Rising Star Scholarship, which will invite an artist from Down Under to experience life in the home of country, Nashville. The recipient will receive “unprecedented access” to Nashville’s music scene, including an opportunity to perform, write, meet industry personnel and have two days of recording time at Urban’s studio, The Sound. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The winner will have all expenses covered, including flights and accommodation. “Sometimes all a musician…
Press release – Ashes Of Ares- “New Messiahs” album is out everywhere! Formed in 2012 by former Iced Earth members Matt Barlow and Freddie Vidales, alongside former Nevermore drummer Van Williams, Ashes of Ares was born from a shared vision: to create a sound that reflects their personal influences, ideas, and visions. With their self-titled debut album released in 2013, the band quickly captivated audiences in the USA and Europe with their electrifying live performances. Matt Barlow and Freddie Vidales of Ashes of Ares. – Photo by Elias Aravides In 2017, following the departure of Van Williams, Matt and Freddie…
“There are so many more layers to my emotion; I am not just this soft-spoken artist with no opinions,” Laufey tells NME over mint tea on a balmy summer afternoon in central London. “I possess rage, anxiety, anger and delusion.” The Los Angeles-based, Icelandic-Chinese star has just touched down in the city to perform a handful of intimate previews of her third album, ‘A Matter Of Time’, when we meet her in a bustling townhouse restaurant. She’s seated in the middle of a red dining booth with her head buried in her phone as we approach, before her eyes dart…